He also began to promote other causes. Congress soon passed it, though in a watered-down form. The return of conservative whites to power and the end of integration at the university in —77 triggered his most politically active phase. Chapters 6 to 10 chronicle Greener the justice-seeking lawyer, speaker, and writer. Having earned his law degree while teaching, he joined a Washington, D.
In he used his legal credentials to help defend a Black U. Military Academy cadet accused of faking an attack by white classmates. Greener lost the case but earned a national reputation. Greener became a prominent scholar of race. Sent to Vladivostock, Russia, in , he became the first African American consul in a predominantly white country.
Meanwhile, before his death in , he largely lost contact with the families he had established in America and in Russia. Those losses, both tied to racial identity, help Chaddock analyze the constructed meanings of race and color.
I once contemplated writing a biography of Greener. Thank goodness I abstained. Chaddock has produced a far better book than I could have. Her writing is snappy, her structure gripping. Few works of history read so much like a good novel.
In October, Greener was recalled from Vladivostok. He retired to Chicago, Illinois the following year and died there in Skip to content Richard T. Do you find this information helpful? A small donation would help us keep this accessible to all. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone! Yet he died in obscurity, his name barely remembered.
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